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...scheduled a cover story on that boring old speech. Teachers appreciate this kind of civics lesson. Then, cautiously, we framed a "Presidential Problems" sidebar. Question No. 1: How to describe the President's alleged liaison? We decided to say the married President was accused of having a "girlfriend"--a word as innocent or suggestive as a child makes it out to be. Words we wanted to avoid: adultery, affair and, of course, sex. Who knows how long it would take a teacher to regain control of giggling fourth-graders after that three-letter bomb exploded in class...
...sidebar: Larry King shocks Lewinsky lawyer Ginsburg by telling him that the New York Times plans to print something about Monica's answering machine and what the President purportedly said on it. Then, 15 minutes later, he recants, saying he had no idea what the Times was going to print. This, as Greenfield later pointed out in the town hall, was not a bug, but a feature: Broadcasters can correct their mistakes in real time...
...picks up a large piece of chocolate cake, Fonda says that exercise, once an obsession, has become "a sidebar." "I'll be 60 in December," she pronounces with the honesty only someone who looks 40 could bring to the subject. Being happily married has freed her to discover a satisfying life beyond the gym and the silver screen, she says. Cutting teen pregnancy is a big part of it. Newt & Co., watch...
...main article, written in the City and Region section, seemed more a feature story and was headlined as such, this headline seems to indicate that there has been a student outcry in favor of a McDonald's in Harvard Square, which is not the case. In addition, the sidebar to the piece, "Caution: Square Contents are Hot," should have been a place where the concerns of both the Harvard Square Defense Fund and McDonald's were analyzed more thoroughly and in a more unbiased format. The sidebar is a bit more balanced, but falls short in sampling the variety...
Time accompanies its seven-page coverage of DeGeneres with an interesting sidebar depicting other such momentous occasions. Listed there are television's first inter-racial kiss (courtesy of "Star Trek" in 1968), the first character to have an abortion (the title character of "Maude" in 1972) and the now infamous decision of Murphy Brown to bear a child out of wedlock. The banner headline reads, "Ellen is far from the first TV series to take on a controversial social issue...